Thursday, August 14, 2008

Come with me on a jazzy journey into colors, shapes, and sounds. Old broken footage has been filtered and folded, softened and slurped. The unusable made useable, and now playing. Watch tapping, bobbing, swaying to swimming spoon, and fresh fills.

Close your eyes and watch the magic. Smell the notes, smell the teen spirit, and smell the garlic. Come with me on a jazzy journey into open shells and closed fists. Go ahead, brush your shoulders off.

My mouth is watering. Mussels and some bread for dipping. Maybe a beer or white wine. Oh boy, I can't wait to prepare this dish. Of course I hate cleaning mussels but the end result is worth it.Loved the background music but missed hearing your voice.

Yummy! Looks nice. Here in Belgium, the "moules frites" is kind of a national dish. It translates to "mussels with chips" ... yes "chips" because I'm English (I believe you would say french fries)... although even in France they mockingly admit that the holy mecca of chips is Belgium, so I guess that would make them Belgian fries. This is confusing, i'm off to sleep. I guess my point was, it looks great but I'd go for a nice heap of fries instead of the bread.

The commercial mussels are clean because they are farmed - grown on strings in fact. Richard Garwin who almost single-handedly drew the design for the first US thermonuclear bomb ("Mike", 10 megatonn) also later built an ingenious hand-cranked mussel washer that removed all sand from wild mussels perfectly. But the said invention never made him rich because farmed mussels have no sand, and no-one picks the wild ones.

wow that was pretty cool. good music and to the point, but I was surprised that you didn't say anything the entire video! haha. either way good video. I'll try some day if I can get some mussels. Maybe next time I can get out to SF.

...sittin here havin some hot salsa and organic blue corn chips for breakfast...i turn to Chef M like i do first thing every morning, and what's he doin? Throwin down some mussels with the the classic Eddie Harris and Les McCann cookin up their own dish in the background! Chef, you are off the chain!! Love your blog!

thanks!! It's more about politics than food in this instance. But, several commented on the mussels recipe so I do hope you get a few more viewers, at least till 2012 when all this is going to go away.